Railroad way-construction and maintenance car



R. E. BRESSLER. RAILROAD WAYCONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE CAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 3. I918- iatented Jan. 20, 1920.

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R. E. BRESSLER;

RAILROAD wAypowsiRucrlow AND MANTENANCE CAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-3,1918.

Patented J an. 20, 1920.

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ROBERT E. BRESSLER, 6F HAMMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO 0. F. JORDANCGMPANY, OF EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

RAILROAD HAY-CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE CAR.

Application filed September 3, 1918.

To all whom 2723' may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. BRESSLER,

:a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hammond, county ofLake, State of Indiana, have invented certain new and use fulImprovements in Railroad Nay-Construotion and Maintenance Cars, of whichthe following is a specification,

My invention relates to improvements in machines for constructing andmaintaining railroads and has particular reference to improvements inballast shaping and ditching cars.

The general object of my invention isto provide means wherewith thematerial, collected in ballast shaping. ditching or otherwise, can becarried along with the car through deep cuts and Wasted over the bank atthe end of the cut, or in the event the out be a long one, left inspaced piles in the out for convenient removal thereafter.

Another object of my invention is to provide a ballast shaping andditching car Wherevvith road can'be simultaneously shaped and ditched,the excess material from the ditch and elsewhere on the ballast shaping'Wing being carried along with the car, and if the cut be relativelyshort one Wasted over the back at the end of the out, or if the out be along one left in spaced piles within the cut for convenient removal.

A further object of my invention is to provide a ditching attachmentthat can be employed in conjunction with railroad spreaders of incurrent use.

, A further objgect of my invention is to provide materialconveyingmechanism that can be employed in conjunction with the ballastshaping wing or spreader Wing of such form and construction as to beautoni'atically moved from inoperative to operative position vice-versathrough the mere movements of the ballast shaping,

spreader, or side,wing as the case may be.

lily invention iconsis'ts generall .in the form, construction,arrangement and coiip eration of the parts, whereby the above namedobjects, together With others which will appear hereinafter, areattainable; and my invention will be more readilyunder- Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Jan. 20, 1920.

Serial No. 252,398.

stood by reference to the accompanying bodiment thereof.

In said drawings Figure l, is a plan View of a railroad car embodying myinvention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the car shown in Fig. 1; andFig. 3 is a fragmentar detailed View substantially on the line 33 ofFig. 2, certain of the structure being broken away better to disclosethe bracing members In the drawings, Lhave shown my inventionis-combined with or as a part of a railroad spreader car of theWell-known Jordan construction such as is disclosed by O. F. JordanPatent No. 996,256 of June 27, 191.1. It should be distinctly understoodhowever that this car is used for illustrating purposes, and that exceptWhere limited by the clain'is, I may employ a car of any suitableconstruction. VJhile it is not necessary to describe the car in detail,since suc description will be found in said patent, neverthelessageneral description of the car and its operation will be helpful. Imight add that my invention as here embodied is applied to the standardJordan spreader, the spreader Wings. marked 12 in said patent, and someof the braces, thereof having been removed. l.he car is provided withthe front and rear trucks 1 and 2 and with. suitable center and sidesills. At a point just back of the front trucks Will be found verticalcolumns which are secured to opposite sides of the under frames andwhich extend nearly to the rails. The ballast shaping Wing 12 operatedin the same manner and by the same mechanism by which the spreader Wing12 of the standard Jordan spreader is operated. The ballast shaping Wing12 is attached at one end to the movable hinge posts 99 which are freelyslidable in the column 6. These posts are operated by means ofcompressed air engines l0, l0 and the car is equipped The two sides ofthe car are exactly alike except that, the parts occupy reversepositions; this being the case a descrlptlon of one side, and itsoperating mechanism, will .the hinge occupies a vertical'position andthe wing 12 is pivoted in the part 11 by means of thehorizontal pin 13.The two pivot pins being atright angles, allow the wing 12 to swing inboth horizontal and vertical directions. The horizontal movement occursin distending and retracting the wing to and from its working positionand the vertical movement when it is desired to incline the same to anydesired angle to the horizontal plane in the ballast shaping of the roadbed. The free end of the wing 12 is sustained and also braced by anadjustable telescopic brace member 14?, the lower end of which ispivotally attached to the wing at 14*, and the upper end of which isvertically pivoted at 14 to a plate 9 upon the upper part of the post 9.vThe wing 12 being attached to the post obviously rises and falls withthe post.

The wing 12 .is shown in distended or operative position on the nearside of the car in Fig. 1 and in closed or inoperative position on thefar side.

For holding the wing distended against the ballast, which it mustdisplace as the car is moved forward, I prefer to employ a plurality ofbraces a-a; which extend from the side of the car to the inner side ofthe wing and which are constructed and operated in the manner of thebraces w-a in said Patent No. 996,256. It is not thought necessary todescribe these in detail and it will be only said these braces aa serveboth as braces and as toggle members whereby when the shaft 18 isrocked, as by means of an air engine 19, they (serve to throw or movethe wing 12 outwardly to operative position or inwardly to inoperativeposition.

lWhen it is desired to form a ditch Don the side of the road bed thewing 12 is of a form having a portion 12 which isigiventhat'shape'desired in the completed ditch.

. In railroad practice it is necessary even after the ditch isoriginally formed to clearit several times during the year if the'roadbed is to be maintained in proper order. Whether the ballast shaping andditching portion 12 be used in the initial construction work or inmaintenance work a quantity of material indicated at M in the draw-,ings will pile tip-forward of the wing 12.

' neaaeee In passing through a cut this would soon waste over the end ofthe wing 12* and. into the preformed ditch thus making impossible theformation of a proper ditch. To prevent any such action, I provide what1 term a material carrying wing, indicated at 60. This wing is securedto the outer end of the wing 12 as by means of the hinge member 61 andvertical hinge pin 62 and, as indicated, in operative position, extendsforwardly in somewhat parallel relation to the side of the car. As thecar moves and the material accumulates forwardly against the wing 12this tends to displace the material carrying wing and in order to holdthe same in desired position against such forces, I provide a bracingstrut or member 62 which extends between the forward end of wing and thecar.

The strut 62 is composed of two parts 62' and 62", pivotally joined by ahinge having a horizontal pivot pin 63. It is pivoted to the car bymeans of a vertical pivot pin 64, and to the outer end of the ma terialcarrying wing 60,- by means of a vertical pivot pin 65. The strut isfurther braced by means of the diagonal angle frame 66 which has oneend-pivoted, by

means of a vertical pivoted pin at the front lower end of the wing 60asinclicated' at 67, and which has its other end secured to the lowerpart of the brace portion 62". As the car moves forward, the ballastingor other material will engage the brace 66 and for this reason, I preferto make'it of an angle iron so positioned that the nose 66 thereofpoints forwardly thus presenting a wedge shaped structure to thematerial well adapted for passage therethrough.

So soon as the material begins to accumu-- late between the wing 60' andthe wing 12*, it is obvious that the wing 60 will be held in its outerposition, but with my apparatus it is not necessary to depend upon thematerial to perform this function inasmuch as the wing is positively andpowerfully held in the proper position by means ofthe bracing structurejust described. In order to assist in supporting the wing 60 especiallywhen it is of considerable length, I prefer to provide a chain 68 whichis anchored to the vertical column 9 of the car, as indicated at 69, andto the outer end of the wing at 70. Such a chain while not essentialassists in relieving the strain from the hinge parts.

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12 is moved outwardly, by means of engine 19 that the wing and bracingmember 62 will be automatically distended into the proper operativeposition. Likewise when the wing 12 is retracted, the wing 60 and itsbraces are automatically collapsed or folded in to the proper positionshown on the far side of the car in Fig. 1. It will also be understoodthat the entire wing struc ture, i. c. the wings 12 and 60, may beraised or lowered from the car by operation of the engines 10. If theout were long one, the wings might be raised several times during thepassage of the car through the cut in order to place the accumulatedballast or other material in spaced piles within the cut for convenientremoval later on.

While I have referred herein to ballast material, I wish it would beunderstood that my apparatus may be used to advantage for other purposesone of which is the removal of snow.

Since this disclosure wili readily suggest.

to others modified structures wherewith the substantial objects andpurposes of my invention may be attained, I do not wish to be limited tothe specific structure herein shown and described. or to use with anyparticular type of railroad spreader or car unless there be suchlimitations in the here unto appended claims.

I claim r 1. The improvements herein described comprising a car, incombination with a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, amaterial carrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing,means for swinging the side wing, and combined means for bracing theforward end of the material carrying wing and for causing it to swingwhen the swinging movement is imparted to the side wing i 2. Theimprovements herein described comprising a car, in combination with aside wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying winghaving one end pivotally joined to the side wing. wing swinging andholding braces joining the side wing and the car, means for actuatingsaid braces to swing the side Wing, and wing swinging and holding bracesjoining the material carrying wing and the car whereby movement of theside wing causes movement of the material carrying wing.

35. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combinationwith a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a materialcarrying wing having its comprising a car in combination with a sidewing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a material carrying winghaving its rear end pivoted to the side wing and a bracing memberextending between the forward end of the material carryingwing and thecar, said brace being formed of pivot-ally united sections.

5. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combinationwith a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a materialcarrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing, a bracingmember extending between the forward end of the material carrying wingand the car, said brace being formed or pivotally united sections, oneof the sections of the brace being relatively short, and a bracing strutextending diagonally from the short section to the material carryingwing.

.6. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combinationwith aside wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a materialcarrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing, and abracing member extending between the forward end of the materialcarrying wing and the car, said brace being formed of pivotally unitedsections, one section being relatively short, and a bracing strutextending diagonally. from the short brace member to the materialcarrying wing, saiddiagonal brace being of wedge-like form presenting,when the wings are in operating position,.its nose forwardly as and forthe purpose specified.

7. The improvements herein described comp ising a car, in combinationwith a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a materialcarrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing and a bracingmember extending between the material carrying wing and the car one endof said brace being pivotally joined to the car and the other endpivotally joined to the material carrying wing.

8. The improvements herein describedisomprising a car, in combinationwith a side wing having its inner end pivoted thereto, a materialcarrying wing having its rear end pivoted to the side wing and a bracingmember extending between the material carrying wing and the car one endof said brace being pivot-ally joined to the car and the other endpivotally joined to the material carrying wing, said brace being formedof two parts united by a horizontally disposed pivot member.

9. The improvements herein described comprising a car, in combinationwith a side wing provided with a ditch forming portion adjacent itsouter end and having its inner end pivoted to the car, a materialcarrying having rear end pivoted to ing portion, and means forsimultaneously operating said wings from the car.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 16th day ofAugust, 1918, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 15

ROBERT E. BRESSLER.

Vitnesses: BEATRICE EGKENBEY,

ANNA F. ONns.

